Intervention to Reduce Unwanted Loneliness in Family Caregivers of People With Alzheimer

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Multimodal intervention to Reduce Unwanted Loneliness in Family Caregivers of People With Alzheimer: The multimodal intervention will include these activities: 1. Health education workshops 2. Music therapy sessions 3. Physical exercise adapted to the physical conditions of each participant.

Study summary

The absence of social relationships negatively affects physical, psychological, and social health. In other words, it alters people's quality of life and makes active aging difficult. The investigators have designed a study to reduce unwanted loneliness and improve the living with process of family caregivers of people with Alzheimer disease through multiple interventions (music therapy, health education)

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Score on the Jong Gierveld Lonelinss Scale — From the beginning of the enrollement until the end of the intervention at 12 weeks
  Loneliness Scale Social isolation will be measured with the Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. The final score is the total score for the 11 items, with the lowest possible score being 0 (no loneliness) and the highest being 11 (severe loneliness). Three categories have been proposed based on the score: a score of 0-2 points = no loneliness; a score of 3-8 points = moderate loneliness; and a score of 9-11 points = severe loneliness.
• Living with chronic conditions from the family perspective — From the enrollment to the end of the intervention at 12 weeks
  Living with LTCs scale from the perspective of the family caregiver (EC- PC- Fam). This is an instrument adapted from the original EC- PC.29-31 The adaptation process of the instrument and prior pilot study have been previously described in detail.23 The validated version has 31 items and 5 domains: (1) acceptance, (2) coping, (3) self- management, (4) integration and (5) adaptation. All the items follow a Likert scale of 5 points answer system, from never or none (0) to always and much (4), except for the items from the acceptance domain, which must be inverted to obtain results such as never or none (4) or always or much (0). The scores range from 0 to 155, with a higher score indicating more positive living with LTCs.

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